found out about Enrique and wanted to find more about it and retraced his steps from his journey to America and wrote about it. About 5‚000 teens and kid every 6 months cross the border alone‚ coming from countries like Guatemala‚ El Salvador‚ and Honduras. Enrique relates to most kids right now because kids and teens his age are try to cross the border alone to go live a better life or to go live with a family member that they were separated when they were young. Sonia Nazario disagrees that young
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Recently reported‚ the city of Tegucigalpa‚ Honduras has earn itself the deadliest city in Honduras for the second year in a row. In 2011 Honduras was listed as the country with the highest murder rate in the world. Averaging an approximant total of 3 murders per day these gangs will do anything to prove that are superior. As many may wonder why is this city and country is so high in reported deaths‚ the gangs knows as the MS13 (Mara Salvatrucha) and the Calle 18 could tell you exactly why. "We
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within the United States. Undoubtedly‚ Sonia Nazario uses Enrique’s story to present the negative long term effect immigration has on family. For example‚ Enrique’s mother‚ Lourdes‚ decision to immigrate‚ and how it affected both her family in Honduras‚ and her family in the United States. Along with the reunion of Enrique and his mother‚ and how the degree of separation affected their relationship. And also‚ how Enrique’s immigration affected his own family with Marie Isabel and daughter Jasmin
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The children at the orphanage run by Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH)‚ meaning Our Little Brothers and Sisters in English‚ were the most caring people I’ve met. I had the chance to develop intimate relationships with them on a mission trip to Honduras with my church. I left the country for two weeks over the summer preceding my sophomore year. Going in‚ I was a little nervous‚ having only taken one year of Spanish during my freshman year of high school‚ but during the trip I developed a passion
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Central America’s failing economic systems have left many of its citizens unemployed‚ leading many men‚ women‚ and children to become enticed by trafficked sex workers in a desperate attempt to provide for their families. Central America has now emerged as the largest market for trafficked individuals in the modern era. Central Americans once living on stable household incomes have experienced deep socioeconomic uncertainty and insecurity prompted by the excessive violence and corruption within local
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Carib and Garinagu to distinguish them fromYellow and Red Carib‚ the Amerindian population that did not intermarry with Africans. Today the Garifuna live primarily in Central America. They live along the Caribbean Coast inBelize‚ Guatemala‚ Nicaragua and Honduras including the mainland‚ and on the island of Roatán. There are also diaspora communities of Garinagu in the United States‚ particularly in Los Angeles‚Miami‚ New York and other major cities. Today‚ the majority of Garifuna are officially Catholic but
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Under the rule of the Sadanistas‚ conservative anti-communist groups are beginning to flee Nicaragua. These groups are forming guerilla units. Hundreds of rebels and supporters are trudging into southern Honduras based camps in a mass exodus. Their leaders say fewer than 2‚000 fighters remain in Nicaragua. Guerilla warfare is a type of warfare fought in fast-moving‚ small-scale actions against orthodox military and police forces and on occasion‚ against rival insurgent forces‚ either independently
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Digicel Honduras y El Salvador‚ así fortaleciendo su posición mundial y latinoamericana aun más ante su gran competencia de Tigo. Casi todos han mencionado la estrategia que “el pez grande se come al pequeño” y si es así‚ pero la pregunta es‚ ¿que tan grande es ese pez? Y‚ además de la razón lógica de reinar en el mercado latinoamericano‚ ¿qué lo hizo comprar a Digicel Honduras y El Salvador? Claro es parte de America Movil‚ el líder en Latinoamérica y con la compra de Digicel Honduras y El Salvador
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The Dominican Republic as of 1916 had been a victim of enormous political instability that allowed over the creation a stationary political process. The lack of stable political parties to form control and legitimacy in the country was nowhere to be found. The constant back and forth political changes had only increased their external debt to Europe .The probability of European intervention‚ retaliation against the Dominican Republic only increased as instability had become a trend‚ and the debt
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the genesis of my ambition‚ but the growth of my specific interest in political science stems from my experience as a translator in Honduras. Until then‚ I was I didn’t realize how much power one’s voice carries. Without the power to speak out‚ people are defenseless‚ and as Euripides described‚ “It is slavery‚ not to speak one’s thoughts”. The people of rural Honduras are ruthlessly exploited by the few sources employment. These employers‚ cognizant of their leverage‚ set their wages so low that their
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